It started about 8:34 a.m. Sunday when Alex Johnson, who was dozing on the couch, awoke to a knock at the door of a home in the 2100 block of Taylor Street in Hollywood. Johnson said he let Thomas in.

Thomas grabbed an eight-inch butcher knife from inside the house and "demanded his stuff," Johnson said in the police report.

Thomas declared he was Satan and said he did not care about killing anyone as he walked through the house stabbing the walls and repeatedly saying no one could leave. Then he stood in a doorway, blocking the exit, and stabbed an outside wall, the report stated